Sentences with phrase «major film actor»

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In the 2002 film, «The Rookie,» actor Dennis Quaid plays a middle - aged high school baseball coach who tries out for a major league baseball team.

The actor would be the youngest to take on the role (he's 26 years old), and he has only been in a handful of major films; both points which actually may be an asset rather than a handicap.

Primate «actors» have been featured in major Hollywood films such as The Hangover Part II, The Wolf of Wall Street and Babe: Pig in the City.

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, and, after being forced to migrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English - speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad, and, in Hollywood, Casablanca, in which he appeared as Major Strasser.

His wife (Julie Christie) is a burned out actress who had a child by another actor while married to Nick, of course one day during an arrugment she brings up the fact that the child who is now 15 is not his, major mistake child hears runs away and so is the story line of our film.

That movie nudged him toward being considered a Serious Actor, a designation he nurtured with roles in three films shown at major festivals: Lee Daniels» The Paperboy and Todd Nichols» Mud (both at Cannes this year) and the popular indie comedy Bernie (London Film Festival).

Although it's refreshing to see a major studio take a gamble on a modestly budgeted film targeted towards adults (even if it stars one of the most bankable actors in the world), when that movie is as passively mediocre as «Focus,» you can understand why other studios have been afraid to pull the trigger.

Then again, Day - Lewis is a three - time Oscar winner for Best Actor, Anderson is a major talent, and the last time he and Day - Lewis worked together, on There Will Be Blood, it resulted in one of the most acclaimed films of the decade.

Stiller has proven that he can produce a good film («Zoolander» and «Tropic Thunder» are both excellent comedies), but this marks a major departure for the director / actor.

The video provides actors with a roadmap for writing, producing and performing in a short film that is eligible for submission to the Foundation's biannual showcase, which is a great way to get noticed by major studios.

With a promised 1,000 additional hours of content in 2017, a major focus this year and beyond is their ability to both penetrate the original film world, and receive recognition for their efforts from Academy members at the Oscars — something that Amazon can now boast about after Casey Affleck scored a Best Actor win for Manchester by the Sea.

After that, the young actor would gravitate more to comedy, reuniting with two of his Platoon stars for some of his better movies (Tom Berenger on the two Major League films and Keith David on the underrated, hilarious Men at Work).

Fairbanks, in the silent era, was succeeded by the dashing Australian actor Errol Flynn - the major swashbuckling male star of the 30s and early 40s adventure films in the sound era.

The first film to accomplish the very rare feat of sweeping all five major Oscar categories (best picture, best actor, best actress, best director, and best screenplay), It Happened One Night is among the most gracefully constructed and edited films of the early sound era, packed with clever situations and gags that have entered the Hollywood comedy pantheon and featuring two actors at the top of their game, sparking with a chemistry that has never been bettered.

* The problem wasn't their fine performances, but the fact those were a few of the handful of major roles for actors of color in prestige - ish films this year (and you can argue «Straight Outta» never really found that prestige clout).

And the film counts as a major, important victory for representation — not just as a rare, series - launching vehicle for a black superhero, but also as a mega-budget Hollywood tentpole starring mostly black actors, one that's explicitly about black (and African) identity.

«Moonstruck» was also the final major film performance for character actor Vincent Gardenia, nominated for an Oscar as the philandering, gently pompous Cosmo Castorini.

It helps that an actor of Emily Blunt's (The Five - Year Engagement) stature signed on to give this project star wattage, but the film is genuinely a major step up in terms of maturity and skill compared to Shelton and Duplass» last collaboration, Humpday.

As the major studios have increasingly focused on predictable mass entertainment formulas, quality and imagination have migrated to what could be called Sundance films: Lower budget, innovative projects fueled by the love of their makers, and sometimes by the determination of actors trying to break out of assembly - line fodder.

Matthew McConaughey may have become a star as a leading man in major - studio films like «A Time to Kill» and «The Wedding Planner,» but in the last few years the laid - back Texan has reinvented and revived his career with a string of sparkling performances in low - budget indies: Richard Linklater «s «Bernie,» Steven Soderbergh's «Magic Mike,» William Friedkin «s «Killer Joe,» Jeff Nichols» «Mud» and now Jean - Marc Vallee's «Dallas Buyers Club,» which has made McConaughey a strong favorite to land a Best Actor nomination.

One of his best friends was a film student and the future actor had been experiencing major envy for quite some time.

McDormand ended the speech with a reference to inclusion riders, which allow major actors and actresses to push for diverse casting when they agree to participate in a film.

Returning to the film at hand, Soul Surfer tackles Christian themes with accomplished actors, solid production values, and not a megachurch but a major Hollywood studio behind it.

He also discusses his working relationship with actor Jack Nicholson, casting the future movie star in many of his early roles, making his first major studio film for Columbia Pictures Getting Straight starring Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen.

Jon Hamm is an amazing actor and I love him in Mad Men and I can't wait to see him in a major role in feature films, even though I doubt this role will allow him to branch out into a whole new character.

Marginalized in the initial sequences was Reeves, the lone actor well - known in the U.S. Universal opted to reshoot a major fight scene near the end of the film, as well as a few other scenes to sharpen the focus on Reeves» character Kai.

It's rare for an actor to headline two major studio releases in two weeks, but that rare honor — if in fact, it qualifies as an honor — goes to Miles Teller, one of the hardest working performers of his generation (two films this year after four last year).

The third film to win all five major Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress), Jonathan Demme's patient horror film stars Anthony Hopkins as serial killer / cannibal Hannibal Lecter alongside Jodie Foster as FBI cadet Clarice Starling.

The Academy offered a major surprise by not only honoring the film with nominations for Best Actor Andrew Garfield, Editing, Sound Editing, and Mixing, but also for Director and Best Picture, signaling that scandal - tainted Mel Gibson, who directed «Braveheart» to five Oscar wins including director and picture back in 1996, made such a strong movie that the Academy couldn't deny him.

At 25, English actor, Nicholas Hoult is having one of his best years yet, seeing Mad Max: Fury Road become a major hit while he was filming his role...

Timothy Spall's astonishing, largely non-verbal central turn saw him pick up the Best Actor prize at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, and we'd have been quite happy had the film swept every major award on offer.

When Antoine Fuqua met with MGM to begin discussions about The Magnificent Seven, the big screen remake of the 1960s Western by the same name (which is based on the Japanese classic film, Seven Samurai), there weren't any major actors attached to the movie.

Though known later in life for his political activism and dedication to independent film through his Sundance Film Festival, actor Robert Redford was a major box - office star in the 1960s and 1970s.

So far, we're yet to hear any major criticism from the cast (unsurprisingly, given that they remain under contract), but in an interview with Empire (via CBM), Superman actor Henry Cavill has weighed in on one of the film's biggest — and most hilarious — complaints: Superman's CGI shave.

The film is a major threat for the Cast Ensemble award at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild awards, with supporting players like Mahershala Ali (charming as ever), Jim Parsons (playing an against - type), Kirsten Dunst (feverishly addictive in her mean woman role), and Glen Powell (playing the late John Glenn) all crucial to the film's inevitable success.

And this film is bittersweet now as the last major one for Anton Yelchin, an actor I already miss.

Starring Michael Keaton as an actor trying to regain his former glory on Broadway when his days playing a famous superhero have long been gone, the film is already getting major buzz thanks to its trailer, and would surely be a hot ticket at whatever festival it makes its way to.

Chris Pratt is one of Hollywood's busiest actors these days with starring roles in three major franchises: as Peter Quill in Marvel's «Guardians of the Galaxy,» the voice of Emmet Brickowski in «The LEGO Movie,» and most recently, Owen in «Jurassic World,» the fourth film in the Jurassic Park series.

Casting major actors like Robert Pattinson and Jennifer Jason Leigh as his train - wreck girlfriend is a significant step up from the Safdies» previous film.

If you're at all interested in the film, be warned that the «documentary» gives away every major plot twist (admittedly, they're not that difficult to figure out in the first place) while providing no insight into the film nor the actors (save for the disheartening shock that Cook, Phillippe, and Forlani are actually more insipid in real life).

It also represents a major leap for comedian, actor and storyteller Mike Birbiglia, who made his debut film Sleepwalk With Me, just a few years ago.

Mr. Skrein's departure is the first time in recent years that an actor has left a major film over whitewashing concerns.

La La Land, which stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as wannabe stars in a Hollywood - set musical, is Chazelle's third film as a director, after 2009's Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench and 2014's Whiplash; the latter won two major awards at the Sundance film festival and three Oscars, including best supporting actor for JK Simmons.

This was the feature film debut for: Ralph Waite (4 years later he became the beloved paternal figure of TV's «The Waltons»); Joe Don Baker (Buford Pusser from Walking Tall); James Gammon (later the crusty manager in Major League); and Anthony Zerbe, another iconic character actor of the 70's and 80's.

After three years of extensive research the pair have managed to speak with almost every living major contributor to the film, among them directors John Hancock and Jeannot Szwarc, screenwriters Dorothy Tristan and Carl Gottlieb, Production Designer / Associate Producer Joe Alves, Universal Studios former chairman Sidney Sheinberg and cast members Lorraine Gary, Jeffrey Kramer, Joseph Mascolo and all (17) of the young actors who played what the authors collectively call «the Amity Kids!»

Will Smith made his first major appearance of 2016 over the weekend in California alongside the real - life subject of the actor's latest film, Concussion, Dr Bennet Omalu.

At 25, English actor, Nicholas Hoult is having one of his best years yet, seeing Mad Max: Fury Road become a major hit while he was filming his role in next year's X-Men: Apocalypse.

Black Panther doesn't quite have an actor who fits that profile (Forest Whitaker comes closest, but his role within the film is probably too minor, while Lupita Nyong» o's role might be too quiet to attract Academy voters), but it does have an up - and - coming movie star, in a major supporting role, who gives the kind of flashy - but - deep performance that actors love.

«Yes, audiences are more disposed toward being inclusive in matters of race and sexuality in the 21st century than they were in the 20th — witness the (Oscar) win by A Fantastic Woman, starring a trans actor in the leading role, as Best Foreign Film of the year, and the other major mainstream film of the year, Get Out, Jordan Peele's social critique / horror film, which also dominated at the box office.

Get Out was the only film centering on a person of color to score a Best Picture nomination but it showed up big in the major categories, with three additional nominations: Director, Lead Actor, and Original Screenplay.